University of Kentucky
Compensation Consultant
🇺🇸 Lexington, KY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $40K - $64K
💻 Human Resources
🗓️ May 16th, 2025
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The University of Kentucky is hiring a Compensation Consultant. The role involves partnering with managers to develop organizational structures and collaborate with clients on job classifications, while ensuring alignment with market benchmarks and internal equity. The position includes providing expert guidance on job evaluations, market analysis, compliance, and delivering excellent customer service while supporting continuous improvement in HR practices.
Highlights
Highlights
- Develop strategic organizational structures and reorganizations.
- Benchmark job roles with survey data for market alignment.
- Provide training on position description writing and compliance.
- Support job and position changes in SAP and online systems.
- Salary ranges from $39,894 to $63,814 per year.
- Requires a bachelor's degree with 3 years of related experience.
- Preferred education includes HR or related fields and compensation analysis experience.
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Posting Details
Posting Details
Job Title | Compensation Consultant
Requisition Number | RE50281
Working Title |
Department Name | 3J541:Compensation
Work Location | Lexington, KY
Grade Level | 43
Salary Range | $39,894-63,814/year
Type of Position | Staff
Position Time Status | Full-Time
Required Education | BA
Click here for more information about equivalencies: | https://hr.uky.edu/employment/working-uk/equivalencies
Required Related Experience | 3 yrs
Required License/Registration/Certification | None.
Physical Requirements | Lifting of objects up to 20 lbs. Sitting for long periods of time. Effectively communicating and building relationships with individuals from various backgrounds and professional levels.
Shift | Monday through Friday, 8:00am through 5:00pm with additional hours required as needed.
Job Summary | The University of Kentucky is seeking a Compensation Consultant to join our team as we evolve and advance our pay strategies to drive employee satisfaction and success for our growing institution! The Compensation Consultant will serve as a strategic partner to assigned client groups, ensuring organizational structures and job classifications align with market benchmarks, internal equity, and University objectives. This role involves providing expert guidance on job evaluations, market analysis, and compliance while delivering excellent customer service and driving continuous improvement in HR practices.
We see value in learning, growing, and collaborating as a team, with our partners, and our customers. This position is on-site, and we are looking for people who share our passion to be better together.
Key Responsibilities:Compensation Consulting Partner with managers to develop strategic organizational structures, including reorganizations. Collaborate with clients to determine appropriate job classifications and titles, adhering to consistent titling conventions. Benchmark job roles using survey data and analytics to ensure external market alignment and internal equity. Develop and present data-driven recommendations to leadership. Collaborate with Employment and HR Business Partners to address needs related to job descriptions, position creation, and reorganizations. Provide training on position description writing and compliance to customers. Complete job and position changes in SAP and the online position description system.
Customer Service Proactively engage with client groups to anticipate and address their needs. Monitor University and industry goals, developing actionable recommendations to support client objectives. Serve as a liaison across HR departments to facilitate comprehensive customer service. Expand professional knowledge of University policies, systems, and procedures through ongoing training.
Organizational Improvement Conduct environmental analyses of work functions to identify process improvement opportunities. Collaborate on the implementation and evaluation of organizational improvements. Partner with leadership to enhance HR functions and organizational effectiveness. Proactively expand procedural knowledge and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
Compliance Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations as well as University policies and procedures. Collaborate with clients to align HR practices with all applicable rules and guidelines.
Special Projects and Other Duties Support ad hoc and planned market surveys, analysis, and implementation. Assist with any compensation functions to meet departmental and customer needs. Complete additional duties as assigned.
Skills / Knowledge / Abilities | The successful candidate will possess and demonstrate skills, knowledge, and abilities which include the following: human resources knowledge, customer service orientation, collaboration, critical thinking, interpersonal communication skills, respect for diversity, problem solving, detail orientation, and excellent follow through.
Does this position have supervisory responsibilities? | No
Preferred Education/Experience | Preferred degree areas include Human Resources, Public Administration, Healthcare Administration, or related field. Prefer experience providing compensation analysis and/or consultation.
Deadline to Apply | 05/26/2025
Our University Community | We value the well-being of each of our employees and are dedicated to creating a healthy place for everyone to work, learn and live. In the interest of maintaining a safe and healthy environment for our students, employees, patients and visitors the University of Kentucky is a Tobacco & Drug Free campus.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strongly encourage veterans, individuals with disabilities, women, and all minorities to consider our employment opportunities.
Any candidate offered a position may be required to pass pre-employment screenings as mandated by University of Kentucky Human Resources. These screenings may include a national background check and/or drug screen.
Requisition Number | RE50281
Working Title |
Department Name | 3J541:Compensation
Work Location | Lexington, KY
Grade Level | 43
Salary Range | $39,894-63,814/year
Type of Position | Staff
Position Time Status | Full-Time
Required Education | BA
Click here for more information about equivalencies: | https://hr.uky.edu/employment/working-uk/equivalencies
Required Related Experience | 3 yrs
Required License/Registration/Certification | None.
Physical Requirements | Lifting of objects up to 20 lbs. Sitting for long periods of time. Effectively communicating and building relationships with individuals from various backgrounds and professional levels.
Shift | Monday through Friday, 8:00am through 5:00pm with additional hours required as needed.
Job Summary | The University of Kentucky is seeking a Compensation Consultant to join our team as we evolve and advance our pay strategies to drive employee satisfaction and success for our growing institution! The Compensation Consultant will serve as a strategic partner to assigned client groups, ensuring organizational structures and job classifications align with market benchmarks, internal equity, and University objectives. This role involves providing expert guidance on job evaluations, market analysis, and compliance while delivering excellent customer service and driving continuous improvement in HR practices.
We see value in learning, growing, and collaborating as a team, with our partners, and our customers. This position is on-site, and we are looking for people who share our passion to be better together.
Key Responsibilities:Compensation Consulting Partner with managers to develop strategic organizational structures, including reorganizations. Collaborate with clients to determine appropriate job classifications and titles, adhering to consistent titling conventions. Benchmark job roles using survey data and analytics to ensure external market alignment and internal equity. Develop and present data-driven recommendations to leadership. Collaborate with Employment and HR Business Partners to address needs related to job descriptions, position creation, and reorganizations. Provide training on position description writing and compliance to customers. Complete job and position changes in SAP and the online position description system.
Customer Service Proactively engage with client groups to anticipate and address their needs. Monitor University and industry goals, developing actionable recommendations to support client objectives. Serve as a liaison across HR departments to facilitate comprehensive customer service. Expand professional knowledge of University policies, systems, and procedures through ongoing training.
Organizational Improvement Conduct environmental analyses of work functions to identify process improvement opportunities. Collaborate on the implementation and evaluation of organizational improvements. Partner with leadership to enhance HR functions and organizational effectiveness. Proactively expand procedural knowledge and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
Compliance Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations as well as University policies and procedures. Collaborate with clients to align HR practices with all applicable rules and guidelines.
Special Projects and Other Duties Support ad hoc and planned market surveys, analysis, and implementation. Assist with any compensation functions to meet departmental and customer needs. Complete additional duties as assigned.
Skills / Knowledge / Abilities | The successful candidate will possess and demonstrate skills, knowledge, and abilities which include the following: human resources knowledge, customer service orientation, collaboration, critical thinking, interpersonal communication skills, respect for diversity, problem solving, detail orientation, and excellent follow through.
Does this position have supervisory responsibilities? | No
Preferred Education/Experience | Preferred degree areas include Human Resources, Public Administration, Healthcare Administration, or related field. Prefer experience providing compensation analysis and/or consultation.
Deadline to Apply | 05/26/2025
Our University Community | We value the well-being of each of our employees and are dedicated to creating a healthy place for everyone to work, learn and live. In the interest of maintaining a safe and healthy environment for our students, employees, patients and visitors the University of Kentucky is a Tobacco & Drug Free campus.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strongly encourage veterans, individuals with disabilities, women, and all minorities to consider our employment opportunities.
Any candidate offered a position may be required to pass pre-employment screenings as mandated by University of Kentucky Human Resources. These screenings may include a national background check and/or drug screen.
Posting Specific Questions
Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
- * Possessing the ability to think critically while being creative can mean using limited information to extrapolate preliminary conclusions. Based on information including this position posting, the core functions of human resources, principles of customer service, and your experience in a higher education or healthcare environment, how would you envision the role of the HR Compensation Consultant making a difference within the University of Kentucky?
(Open Ended Question) - * Describe a time when you had a plan made, and completed the work, then the customer wanted changes. What did you do and what was the outcome?
(Open Ended Question)
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